THE CASE AGAINST PORN

I quote from an excellent article on http://www.erasethedark.com/ourcase.html

"Every hour in America, sixteen women will encounter a rapist.  Since 1960, rape has risen 500%, and it is reported once every forty-six seconds.  One in eight women will be raped at least once.  Comparatively, in a study of convicted rapists, 86% of the rapists admitted to routine use of pornography, while 57% said that they would actually mimic specific pornographic scenes while raping a woman.

Pornography has grown into a thirteen billion dollar a year industry, and it exceeds the combined revenues of America’s foremost sport franchises--baseball, basketball, and football.

The dual proliferation of pornography and rates of rape in America are not coincidental.  Pornography, rape, and other acts of injustice directly coincide; it is time for the dark perception in society that says pornography is a victimless crime and harmless freedom to be erased."

Go to http://www.erasethedark.com/ and learn about the dangers of pornography to women.  Thankfully, there are great women out there winning battles for women, such as the recent ban on violent pornography in the United Kingdom (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/5297600.stm).

Pornography is vile and disgusting, degrades women, and further legal attention may be needed for women.  The notion that it is simply a 'victimless crime' or a 'harmless freedom' is a dangerous one.  Pornography is harmful to women and women's rights.  Women have the right to live free of the fear of being raped, and free of being regarded as mere sex objects. 

Pornography firmly entrenches in people's minds the notion that women are mere sex objects or hunks of meat.  If we are to have a future in which the sexes are truly equal and a future in which women are respected, pornography must go.

>>23
the sheer amount of child pornography available in the internet says differntly. child porn is already illegal, and there is already initiatives to hunt it down and eliminate it. yet it still exists in mass amounts. and you're saying that it's possible to patrol the internet and eliminate all porn? sorry, to burst your bubble, but this is impossible.

also, what's more worth the time, protecting abused children, or full grown women at the very least able to defend themselves?

>>24

i'm not sure i agree with you, but ok w/e.

incidently, i smell troll all over this thread. someone is playing devils advocate without reguard to logic or realistic circumstances. there are far more important things you have to consider when looking at the causes of violent crimes, let alone violent sexual crimes. porn is simply an easy scapegoat because most us are already reigned into thinking it's wrong and dirty. Again, you're blaming the media as if it were an explicite guidebook to criminal action. violent video games dont create teenage murderes, even though those kids might have playd said games before participating in criminal activity.